The Roman Army, 31 BC–AD 337: A Sourcebook

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the public treasury, proconsul of Sicily, logista of Syria, Legate of Legion
XVI Flavia Steadfast, superintendent of the community of Narbonensis,
similarly of Ancona, similarly of Tarracina, superintendent of the
Clodian, Cassian, and Ciminian roads, praetor, plebeian aedile, quaestor
of Pontus and Bithynia, tribune with the broad stripe of Legion IX
Hispana, member of the Board of Three for executions, patron of the
colony; Rasinia Pietas, nurse of his daughters, set this up at her own
expense. The site was granted by decree of the town councillors.
Ligarianus’ career illustrates a combination of military and civil posts, with a
preponderance of the latter, culminating in the prestigious province of Syria.
He was governor of Cappadocia, 137/8–139/40.
112 Smallwood NH 214, with Habicht 1969, inscription,
Pergamum, Asia, 2nd C.AD
Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus, consul (AD 105), priest, appointed army
commander in the Dacian War, and companion of Emperor Trajan in
the war there, honoured with triumphal ornaments, legate with
propraetorian power of the province of Judaea, legate with
propraetorian power of Cappadocia-Galatia-Lesser Armenia-Pontus-
Paphlagonia-Isau[ria-Phrygi]a, legate with propraetorian power of the
province of Syria-Phoenice-Commagene, legate with propraetorian
power of the province of [Dacia]; military tribune of Legion XIII
(Gemina), member of the Board of Three for bronze, gold, and silver
coinage, [quaestor (?) of Cre]te and Cyrene, [curule (?)] aedile, praetor
of the Roman people, [legate of] Legion XI Claudia [Loyal and Faithful,
and Leg]ion IV Scythica, and Legion [ _ _ _ ], and Legion XII Fulminata,
[and Legion] III Gallica, and legion [ _ _ _ and leg]ion XIII Gemina and
Legion [ _ _ _ ], a man of distinguished birth [whose family] was
descended [from kings _ _ _ ]. Through the agency of the legate [the
city of] Seleuceia at Zeugma [set up civic honour for him (?)_ _ _
(On adjacent side of the stone)
This man died while still on active service in Dacia and administering
his province, and his body was conveyed back to Asia, borne by soldiers
drawn up under the military standard in charge of the chief centurion
Quintilius Capito, preceded by a parade in every city and military camp,
on the express instructions of the Emperor god Hadrian, and this
monument to him was set up out of the emperor’s own funds.
Bassus’ exceptional career may be tentatively reconstructed: commander of XI
Claudia in Upper Germany c. AD 99–101 (the other seven legions mentioned